An easy way to pipe input into shell commands?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi David,

One possibility might be to use CURL to connect to your standalone through a socket and pipe the data from that connection to the next shell command. This will work on Unix machines but might bot work on Windows.

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On 2 okt 2010, at 14:31, David Bovill wrote:

> Is there a neat way to pipe input into shell commands from STDIN? The usual
> way I do it is to recreate everything as temporary files and then pass the
> file references - however it is both a hassle and can leave clutter around
> although I assume files stored in "the tempname" directory get cleared out
> properly on all platforms (anyone - I've not tested this cross-platform?).
> 
> For smaller inputs (one liners) - you can construct a shell command which
> pipes an echo command - like this:
> 
> put "echo 'Hello world!' | commandLineThatTakesSTDIN" into someShell
>> put shell (someShell)
>> 
> 
> But is you have a lot of text in a variable, that you want to pipe to a
> shell command this is not going to work - hence the need to write out to a
> temporary file. I'm just wandering if there is a way to do something like
> set the contents of STDIN from LiveCode, then just enter the shell command,
> or if this could be some form of feature request?